Founding America_ Documents From the Revolution to the Bill of Rights Part 25

James Harrington (1611-1677), author of the republican political tract The Commonwealth of Oceana ( 1656), The Commonwealth of Oceana ( 1656), published during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. published during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell.

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Alexander Pope (1688-1744), English poet and essayist.

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English political writers from the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, all supporters of republican principles of government.

 

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From Alexander Pope's poem "An Essay on Man" (1734).

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Words crossed out here and below were written by Jefferson but later removed from the doc.u.ment by Congress.

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Words in brackets here and below were written in the margin by Jefferson and approved by Congress for inclusion in the finished doc.u.ment.

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Evidently a reference to Silas Deane ( 1737-1789), the Continental Congress's agent to France, who en route to that country reached Bermuda in early May 1776.

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Samuel Chase ( 1741-1811 ), Maryland representative in the Continental Congress.

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Benjamin Harrison ( 1726-1791 ), Virginia delegate to the Continental Congress.

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James Wilson ( 1742-1798) of Pennsylvania.

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Robert Treat Paine ( 1731-1814) of Ma.s.sachusetts.

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John Witherspoon (1723-1794), delegate from New Jersey, was also the president of the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University.

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Benjamin Rush ( 1746-1813) of Pennsylvania.

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Stephen Hopkins (1707-1785), delegate from Rhode Island.

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In the early 1780s, the northern and western boundaries of Pennsylvania had yet to be surveyed, and the exact location of Lake Erie relative to that state remained uncertain.

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Hamilton refers to the hereditary office that had become the effective monarchy of the united provinces of the Netherlands.

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Philip John Schuyler ( 1733-1804) of Albany soon became Hamilton's father-in-law.

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Alexander McDougall ( 1731-1786) of New York City had been a prominent leader of the Sons of Liberty before 1776 and later served as a general in the Continental Army.

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In 1780 the Continental Congress began asking particular states to supply specific material needs of the Continental Army.

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John Law ( 1671-1729), Scottish economist who founded the Mississippi Company, which became one of the great speculative bubbles of the early eighteenth century.

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